With Waefu' Heart
With Waefu' Heart | |
Robert Tannahill
| With waefu' heart, and sorrowing e'e, I saw my Jamie sail awa'; O 'twas a fatal day to me, That day he pass'd the Berwick Law: How joyless now seem'd all behind! I ling'ring stray'd along the shore; Dark boding fears hung on my mind That I might never see him more. | 2. The night came on with heavy rain, Loud, fierce, and wild, the tempest blew; In mountains roll'd the awful main-- Ah, hapless maid! my fears how true! The landsmen heard their drowning cries, The wreck was seen with dawning day; My love was found, and now he lies Low in the isle of gloomy May. |
| 3. O boatman, kindly waft me o'er! The cavern'd rock shall be my home; 'Twill ease my burthen'd heart, to pour Its sorrows o'er his grassy tomb: With sweetest flow'rs I'll deck his grave, And tend them through the langso me year, I'll water them, ilk morn and eve, With deepest sorrow's warmest tear. |